Democratic Union–Broad Centre ( ca, Unió Democràtica–Centre Ampli, UDCA) was a

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

founded in November 1978 by Antón Cañellas, together with other former

Democratic Union of Catalonia The Democratic Union of Catalonia ( ca, Unió Democràtica de Catalunya; , UDC), frequently shortened as Union ( ca, Unió; ), was a regionalist, Christian-democratic political party in the Catalonia region of Spain existing between 1931 and 2017 ...

(UDC) members—such as Francesc Blanch i Terrades, Santiago Guillén or Josep-Rafel Carreras de Nadal—after being expelled from the UDC because of his support to the electoral platform established by the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) and the

Union of the Centre of Catalonia Union of the Centre of Catalonia ( ca, Unió de Centre de Catalunya, UCC) was a political party based in Catalonia, created in March 1978 as a result of the merger of Catalan Centre, League of Catalonia–Catalan Liberal Party, Union of the Chri ...

(UCC). The party would be officially registered in the

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on 19 December 1978, with Cañellas as its secretary-general. In December 1979 it would be merged into the

Centrists of Catalonia Centrists of Catalonia ( ca, Centristes de Catalunya, es, Centristas de Cataluña, CC–UCD) was a Catalan-based electoral alliance formed in June 1978 ahead of the upcoming local and general elections, comprising the Catalan section of the Uni ...

alliance, with Cañellas becoming the president of the newly unified party. At the time of its dissolution, the party had 300 members.

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

References

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